I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.
Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.